Matt Viator

[cajun_civil]

_ So who do you think is the best coach in the Southland. Viator is about to tie for 1st in the SLC with a win next week and will be his 4th SLC championship in his 5 yrs as HC. He has put up some impressive offensive numbers while both the OC and HC also. Below is a bio through 2008. McNeese has not updated their website since then it looks like.

In three seasons, Matt Viator has become one of the most successful coaches in the NCAA’s FCS division. He has guided the Cowboys to a Southland Conference football championship and into the NCAA Division I championship in two of his three years as head coach at McNeese State.
His 2007 team posted only the fourth undefeated, untied regular season record in the university’s history, won the league title for a second year and participated in the NCAA FCS championship for a second straight year.
Viator had taken over the head job four games deep into the 2006 season, went 6-2 the rest of the way, won the SLC title and put his team into the NCAA FCS championship.
His coaching record is an outstanding 24-7 and his teams have lost only five regular season games.
In conference competition only, his teams have a 16-4 mark.
Viator has earned numerous coaching honors including two straight SLC coach of the year awards and a Louisiana collegiate coach of the year award. He has also been a finalist for the national Eddie Robinson award twice.
He claimed his first collegiate coaching victory in his very first game as head coach when the Cowboys posted a 30-27 win over Southern Utah in 2006.
Viator is the 14th head coach in McNeese history. He was 6-2 in his first season and 5-1 in league play, winning the final five league games of the year.
Prior to his becoming head coach, Viator, who is a graduate of McNeese, had served the university as offensive coordinator and is regarded as one of the top Division I offensive minds.
The Cowboys have ranked among the national leaders in offense for seven of the past nine years and the university has also produced the Southland Conference’s top offensive performer three of the last six seasons.
His offenses have led the league in scoring five times and in 2008 set school records for total offense per game, passing offense per game and scoring average per game.
Before he joined the Cowboys, Viator was one of the top prep coaches in Louisiana, producing an 81-37 won-lost record, winning one state crown and five league titles. He joined McNeese in 1999 as linebacker coach and was made offensive coordinator in 2000, the Cowboys leading the league in both scoring offense and total offense that year. _

J-Town, don't know much about Viator....but at least he (his team) scored a touchdown against a&m.

[J-Town Cajun]

_ I'm not saying you are wrong....but Coach Robe was not coaching Division II baseball. I'm not sure if the comparison would hold true.






igeaux.mobi _

CajunRed be careful throwing the term Division II out there. The McNeese will rightfully come out and let you know they are Division I because they are. As you and I both know Division I is separated by FBS and FCS. I know what you meant. But they take real offense to being called Division II, kind of like us being called ULL.

[Hammer58]

_ CajunRed be careful throwing the term Division II out there. The McNeese will rightfully come out and let you know they are Division I because they are. As you and I both know Division I is separated by FBS and FCS. I know what you meant. But they take real offense to being called Division II, kind of like us being called UL. _

And yet it has never stopped them from calling us that does it? Of course, from the very beginning they also took offense at us changing our name to UL.

[CajunNation]

To those of you discussing Viator or DeForest.........

[Duggie35]

_ CajunRed be careful throwing the term Division II out there. The McNeese will rightfully come out and let you know they are Division I because they are. As you and I both know Division I is separated by FBS and FCS. I know what you meant. But they take real offense to being called Division II, kind of like us being called UL. _

J-Town,
You seem to have an obsession with McNeese! What's up with that? One of Bustle's biggest issues since he has been here at UL was allowing McNeese to upset the Cajuns when he couldn't get our guys to hang onto the ball. That victory several years ago is the ONLY thing those folks in Lake Chuck have to hold over UL's head. They like to keep bringing up that issue because that is all they have. Those brokebacks are stuck in their little D-1AA hole in west Louisiana and couldn't play at the the D-1A level even if they wanted to. The biggest name school that they can get to come into Lake Charles is Cal-Poly. Then, when Poly showed up in Lake Chuck, they rolled those dudes right out of their own "HOLE"!

McNeese doesn't have anything over there that we need here at UL. Just drop that nonsense.

[CajunRed]

I'm not saying you are wrong....but Coach Robe was not coaching Division II baseball. I'm not sure if the comparison would hold true.

Okay...I'll correct myself. Coach Robe was a D1 coach that moved up to a larger program to coach the Cajuns and has had great success in doing so. I may be wrong, but I think that would be very different from a coach fronpm a FCS school moving up to a BCS school. I don't think the two are the same.





igeaux.mobi



igeaux.mobi

[CajunRed]

Okay...I'll correct myself. Coach Robe left one D1 program to move up to another...and he has had great success. But I think that is very different from a coach moving from an FCS school up to a BCS program. The situations are not the same.

CajunRed be careful throwing the term Division II out there. The McNeese will rightfully come out and let you know they are Division I because they are. As you and I both know Division I is separated by FBS and FCS. I know what you meant. But they take real offense to being called Division II, kind of like us being called ULL.

igeaux.mobi

[J-Town Cajun]

_ J-Town,
You seem to have an obsession with McNeese! What's up with that? One of Bustle's biggest issues since he has been here at UL was allowing McNeese to upset the Cajuns when he couldn't get our guys to hang onto the ball. That victory several years ago is the ONLY thing those folks in Lake Chuck have to hold over UL's head. They like to keep bringing up that issue because that is all they have. Those McNeeses are stuck in their little D-1AA hole in west Louisiana and couldn't play at the the D-1A level even if they wanted to. The biggest name school that they can get to come into Lake Charles is Cal-Poly. Then, when Poly showed up in Lake Chuck, they rolled those dudes right out of their own "HOLE"!

McNeese doesn't have anything over there that we need here at UL. Just drop that nonsense. _

No obsession here. Trust me when I say that. I am a die hard UL fan and hold season tickets in 4 sports and 0 at Mcneese. The only time I go to games there is when UL plays. I would not trade positions with them in any sport. I just happen to like Viator and think he should get a look. I said before he is not my first choice but I am not sure my top choices are available and want to come to UL. I just don't think we can rule Viator out at this point until we know who wants this job. Hiring Viator would be an improvement over what we have right now.

[Turbine]

V for victory igeaux.mobi

[RayneCajun]

_ J-Town,
You seem to have an obsession with McNeese! What's up with that? One of Bustle's biggest issues since he has been here at UL was allowing McNeese to upset the Cajuns when he couldn't get our guys to hang onto the ball. That victory several years ago is the ONLY thing those folks in Lake Chuck have to hold over UL's head. They like to keep bringing up that issue because that is all they have. Those McNeeses are stuck in their little D-1AA hole in west Louisiana and couldn't play at the the D-1A level even if they wanted to. The biggest name school that they can get to come into Lake Charles is Cal-Poly. Then, when Poly showed up in Lake Chuck, they rolled those dudes right out of their own "HOLE"!

McNeese doesn't have anything over there that we need here at UL. Just drop that nonsense. _

Not picking on you Duggie, I agree with your post. But they do have a nice 2 story fieldhouse being built in the endzone. Wish we had one going up.

GEAUX CAJUNS!!!!